Song of Solomon 1:1 - CSB - Solomon's Finest Song. (2024)

Legacy Standard Bible
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Darby Translation
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

New King James Version
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Literal Translation
The song of songs which is Solomon's.

Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon's Most Wonderful Song.

World English Bible
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. Beloved

King James Version (1611)
The song of songs, which is Solomons.

King James Version
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Salomons Balettes, called Cantica Canticorum.

THE MESSAGE
The Song—best of all songs—Solomon's song!

Amplified Bible
The Song of Songs [the best of songs], which is Solomon's.

American Standard Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Bible in Basic English
The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Update Bible Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

Webster's Bible Translation
The song of songs, which [is] Solomon's.

New English Translation
Solomon's Most Excellent Love Song.

Contemporary English Version
This is Solomon's most beautiful song.

Complete Jewish Bible
The Ultimate Song, by Shlomo:

George Lamsa Translation
THE song of songs, which is Solomons, the son of David king of Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
The Song of songs, which is Shlomo's. Beloved

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

New Living Translation
This is Solomon's song of songs, more wonderful than any other.

New Life Bible
The Song of Songs, the most beautiful of them all, which is Solomon's. "May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine. Your oils have a pleasing smell. Your name is like oil poured out. So the young women love you. Take me away with you, and let us run together. The king has brought me into his room. "We will have joy and be glad because of you. We will praise your love more than wine. They are right to love you. "I am dark but beautiful, O people of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not look hard at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me, and made me take care of the grape-fields. But I have not taken care of my own grape-field. Tell me, O you whom my soul loves. In what field do you feed your flock? Where do your sheep lie down at noon? Why should I need to look for you beside the flocks of your friends?" "If you do not know, most beautiful among women, follow the path of the flock. And let your young goats eat in the field beside the tents of the shepherds. "To me, my love, you are like my horse among the war-wagons of Pharaoh. Your face is beautiful with the objects you wear, and your neck with the beautiful chain around it. We will make objects of gold and silver for you." "While the king was at his table, my perfume gave out its smell. My loved one is like a jar of perfume to me, who lies all night between my breasts. My loved one is to me like many henna flowers, in the grape-fields of Engedi." "How beautiful you are, my love! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves." "How beautiful you are, my love, and so pleasing! Our bed is green. The pillars of our house are cedars. The pieces on our roof are pine.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

English Revised Version
The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Solomon's Song of Songs.

New Revised Standard
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The Song of Songs, which pertaineth to Solomon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,

Lexham English Bible
The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon.

English Standard Version
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

New American Standard Bible
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

New Century Version
Solomon's Song of Songs.

Good News Translation
The most beautiful of songs, by Solomon.

Revised Standard Version
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

Young's Literal Translation
The Song of Songs, that [is] Solomon's.

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song: Psalms 14:1, *title Isaiah 5:1

Solomon's: 1 Kings 4:32

Reciprocal: Psalms 45:1 - A song Song of Solomon 2:4 - banqueting house Ephesians 5:32 - speak Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual

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Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5
God called the light "day," and He called the darkness "night." Evening came and then morning: the first day.

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:16
God made the two great lights—the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night—as well as the stars.

Genesis 1:17
God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth,

Genesis 1:19
Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

Genesis 1:22
So God blessed them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

Genesis 1:30
for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

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The Song of songs, which [is] Solomon's. Wrote by Solomon, king of Israel, as the "amanuensis" of the Holy Ghost; and not by Hezekiah and his men, as the Jews say k: or, "concerning Solomon" l; Christ, of whom Solomon was a type; see Song of Solomon 3:7; of his person, excellencies, love to his church, care of her, and concern for her; and of the nearness and communion he admitted her to, and indulged her with the Jews have a saying m, that wherever the word Solomon is used in this song, the Holy One is meant, the holy God, or Messiah: it is called "the Song of songs", because the most excellent, as the Holy of holies, King of kings, c. which, with the Hebrews, express a superlative this being more excellent than the one hundred and five songs, written by Solomon, or than any human composure whatever; yea, preferable to all Scriptural songs, as to subject, manner of style, and copiousness of it.

k T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. l לשלמה "de Solomone", Cocceius. m Maimon. Yesode Hatorah, c. 6. s. 12.

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The “Song of songs,” i. e., the best or most excellent of songs.

Which is Solomon’s - literally, “to” or “for Solomon,” i. e., belonging to Solomon as its author or concerning him as its subject. In a title or inscription, the former interpretation is to be preferred.

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE SONG OF SOLOMON

-Year from the Creation of the World, according to Archbishop Usher, 2990.

-Year from the Flood of Noah, according to the common Hebrew text, 1334.

-Year before the birth of Christ, 1010. -Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 1014.

CHAPTER I

The bride's love to her spouse, 1-5.

She confesses her unworthiness; desires to be directed to the

flock, 6, 7;

and she is directed to the shepherds' tents, 8.

The bridegroom describes his bride, and shows how he will

provide for her, and how comfortably they are accommodated,

9-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Song of Solomon 1:1. The song of songs — A song of peculiar excellence. See the Introduction. The rabbins consider this superior to all songs. TEN songs, says the Targum, have been sung; but this excels them all.

1. The first was sung by Adam when his sin was pardoned.

2. The second was sung by Moses and the Israelites at the Red Sea.

3. The third was sung by the Israelites when they drank of the rock in the wilderness.

4. The fourth was sung by Moses when summoned to depart from this world.

5. The fifth was sung by Joshua when the sun and moon stood still.

6. The sixth was sung by Deborah and Barak after the defeat of Sisera.

7. The seventh was sung by Hannah when the Lord promised her a son.

8. The eighth was sung by David for all the mercies given him by God.

9. The ninth is the present, sung in the spirit of prophecy by Solomon.

10. The tenth is that which shall be sung by the children of Israel when restored from their captivities. See the Targum.

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